Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites
John Stuart Mill · en
Themistius, _Oratio VI._, p. 99. Edit. Dindorf.
Footnote 1242:
_Paschal Chron._, p. 562. The Campus is sometimes styled the Campus of
the Tribunal, as for example by Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 707: ἐν τῷ Κάμπῳ
τοῦ Τριβουναλίου.
Footnote 1243:
Themistius, _Oratio VI._, p. 99. Edit. Dindorf.
Footnote 1244:
_Paschal Chron._, p. 562.
Footnote 1245:
Marcellinus Comes.
Footnote 1246:
_Paschal Chron._, p. 568.
Footnote 1247:
_Ibid._, p. 590.
Footnote 1248:
_Ibid._, p. 592.
Footnote 1249:
Victor Tunnensis.
Footnote 1250:
Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 615.
Footnote 1251:
Theophanes, p. 388.
Footnote 1252:
_Ibid._, p. 447.
Footnote 1253:
_Ibid._, p. 784.
Footnote 1254:
Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 438.
Footnote 1255:
The Coronation of Leo the Great in 475, and that of Nicephorus Phocas
in 963. See Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, pp. 410-417, 433-440.
Footnote 1256:
The soldiers spoke in Latin at the Coronation of Anastasius I. in the
Hippodrome. See Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 431. Probably that
was the rule.
Footnote 1257:
In older times the emperor was raised upon a shield at this point of
the proceedings. _E.g._ Julian (Ammianus Marcell. xx. 4); Arcadius,
Valens (Idatius _Fasti Consulares_); Theodosius II. (_Paschal Chron._,
p. 568); Marcian (_Paschal Chron._, p. 590).
Footnote 1258:
Near the Forum of Arcadius, on the Seventh Hill.
Footnote 1259:
In the case of Phocas, for manifest reasons, the coronation by the
patriarch took place in the Church of St. John the Baptist at the
Hebdomon.
So also in the case of Zeno, according to Victor Tunnensis, as quoted
by Du Cange, ii. p. 173. “Zeno a Leone Augusto filio in Septimo contra
consuetudinem coronatur.”
Footnote 1260:
Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 498.
Footnote 1261:
The case of Basil I. is not given by Constantine Porphyrogenitus as
exceptional, and may be considered as exemplifying the rule.
Footnote 1262:
Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, pp. 498-503.
Footnote 1263:
Rufinus, _De Vitis Patrum_, iii., n. 19. “Fuit quidam nuper monachus
in Constantinopoli, temporibus Theodosii imperatoris. Habitabat autem
in parva cella foris civitatem prope proastium, qui vocatur in
Septimo, ubi solent imperatores, egressi de civitate, libenter
degere.”
Footnote 1264:
_De Sacro Eccl._, Lex. 22. “Recitata septimo milliario inclytæ
civitatis, in Novo Consistorio Palatii Justiniani;” cf. _Novella_,
118.
Footnote 1265:
Procopius, _De Æd._, i. c. xi. The name appears, also, under the form
Secundianas: “In Septimo, in palatio quod dicitur Secundianas” (Pope
Gregory the Great, lib. ii. epist. 1; see Du Cange, lii. p. 141; cf.
Malalas, p. 486).
Footnote 1266:
Lydus, p. 229. The column was overthrown by an earthquake in 577, and
sank eight feet into the ground (Theophanes, p. 358).
Footnote 1267:
Procopius, _ut supra_; Theophanes, p. 353.
Footnote 1268: